Events at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Almost finished and close to delivering your assignment, but have questions about your reference practice and reference lists? We will help you as far as we can!

Almost finished and close to delivering your assignment, but have questions about your reference practice and reference lists? We will help you as far as we can!

Almost finished and close to delivering your assignment, but have questions about your reference practice and reference lists? We will help you as far as we can!

CANCELLED as a measure to prevent transmission of the corona virus!

Take a break from your exam preparations and relax with a film screening! 

What is fair use of sources and where does the limit for gray zone cases go? We help you navigate both obvious and non-obvious gray zones and minefields.

Have you chosen your style? APA, Chicago, Harvard, or MLA? We can help you with referencing and reference styles.

CANCELLED as a measure to prevent transmission of the corona virus! 

CANCELLED as a measure to prevent transmission of the corona virus! 

CANCELLED as a measure to prevent transmission of the corona virus.  The Library is closed.

Drop-in session for those who have chosen a topic and are doing a literature review. We show you how searching databases and using good keywords can help you get a complete overview of your topic and find the most important sources.

Do you have questions about using EndNote or Zotero? Completely blank or a bit stuck? Visit our drop-in session and get help!

AVLYST/CANCELLED som tiltak for å hindre smitte av korona-viruset! What can marriage symbolism tell us about representation and about cognition in the middle ages? In this book edited by Line Cecilie Engh, medievalists engage with both medieval and modern theories of representation and cognition to grapple with questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on ideas and practice in the early Christian and medieval period.

Do you want to learn another language outside the classroom walls? You have the opportunity to do that by joining our language café!

Are you struggling to formulate a problem for your assignment? Good literature searches with keywords can help you get started. Visit our drop-in session and get help! 

The International Student Reception and the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at UiO welcomes you to a Valentine's day film screening of Crazy, Stupid, Love!

Do you want to learn another language outside the classroom walls? You have the opportunity to do that by joining our language café!

Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective.

Do you want to learn another language outside the classroom walls? You have the opportunity to do that by joining our language café!

Open talk by Professor Lloyd Pratt, Oxford! How does Frederick Douglass's account of plain reading fit with his investment in rhetorical play elsewhere in his public discourse? Pratt also examines how the relative inattention to African American intellectual history in recent calls for new modes of reading in the humanities has undersold the complexity of African American thinking on the relation of reading to politics.

Do you want to learn another language outside the classroom walls? You have the opportunity to do that by joining our language café!

Life as a student or gründer can sometimes feel both overwhelming and chaotic. Therefore INSJ and FOP invite you to take part in a different and inspiring event to give you the tools for how to make it without losing your mind.

Literary Visions assembles, in English translation, more than 40 prose texts of modern Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew fiction that shed light on modern Middle Eastern lifeworlds.

Get an update on what is currently happening in Kashmir, in this seminar with psychological and medical anthropologist Dr. Saiba Varma.

Why did the twelfth-century canons at the Lateran church in Rome claim the presence of the Ark of the Covenant inside their high altar? Eivor Oftestad's new book argues that the claim responded to new challenges in the aftermath of the First Crusade in 1099. Welcome to book launch! 

Illinois State University Professor of History Andrew Hartman is currently at work on his third book, "Karl Marx in America". According to Hartman, to read and think about Karl Marx is to grapple with the modern world that capitalism has made.